A voting protocol for decision-making in virtual organizations is presented. In an agent-based virtual organization the functions of formation, management and dissolution of the o...
Jeremy V. Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Marek J. Sergot, Ale...
Abstract. A Service-Level Agreement (SLA) provides surety for specific quality attributes to the consumers of services. However, the current SLAs offered by cloud providers do no...
Waheed Iqbal, Matthew N. Dailey, David Carrera, Pa...
The rapid diffusion of heterogeneous forms of wireless connectivity is pushing the tremendous growth of the commercial interest in mobile services, i.e., distributed applications ...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Carlo Giannelli
Appointment scheduling is a problem faced daily by many individuals and organizations. Cooperating agent systems have been developed to partially automate this task. In order to e...
Bioinformatics researchers need efficient means to process large collections of sequence data. One application of interest, genome assembly, has great potential for parallelizati...
Christopher Moretti, Michael Olson, Scott J. Emric...